Microsoft is open sourcing its popular scripting language and porting it to the Linux and Mac OSX platforms. PowerShell capabilities will also reach into the cloud via extensions for Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2016
At Visual Studio Live! on Tuesday, Microsoft's Amanda Silver offered up a state of the Microsoft development stack, noting the gains made by open sourcing its tools.
Amanda Silver's opening keynote on the Open Microsoft Developer Platform, along with a slew of other selected developer sessions, will be live-streamed during next week's conference at the Microsoft campus.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2016
Latest update includes support for more recent Node.js release, as well as quite a few productivity enhancements and bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2016
A preview of the forthcoming Visual F# Tools for F# 4.1 to be released later this year includes support for F# 4.1, editing and compiling .NET Core and .NET Framework projects, as well as support for tuples, struct records, and a number of other F# language enhancements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/26/2016
First previewed at Build 2016, this GA version comes with a number of samples for getting started with building Node.js apps that can take full advantage of Azure Blob, File, Table and Queue storage.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/21/2016
Bash on Windows: It's new, it's exciting, but what can you do with it? We'll show you how the magic works (including some extensions for Visual Studio developers)
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/21/2016
A Windows 10 preview build now has some basic Bash shell capabilities that only Windows Insider members can check out in a test environment.
Write code destined for Linux servers, desktops and devices right from the Visual C++ as if it were native code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/06/2016
Microsoft adds native support for the Linux-based Bash command-line shell in Windows update coming this summer.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/30/2016
A newer version of the R programming language extension is available, with a few more new features as well as updated documentation and help.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/22/2016
Announced at EclipseCon: More tools and support for open source Eclipse platform coming in Microsoft's Azure and Visual Studio tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/08/2016
The company has been putting a year's worth of work porting its open source Web database management system to the Windows platform.
The goal is to eventually get developers to start working more diligently on apps aimed at the Windows 10 IoT Core platform by way of Node.js. That's where Node.js Tools for Windows IoT 1.5 comes in.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/26/2016
Now that the JavaScript engine is open to the development community at large, it paves the way to making it available on Linux and other non-Windows platforms.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/19/2016